Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Apr 8, 2024

A better headline: "Developers not submitting enough building applications to meet SF housing requirements" - and then maybe the analysis of why they aren;t doing so could lead.

https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/08/san-francisco-new-housing-permits-pace/

#SFHousing #RHNA #BetterHeadlinesPlease

Is San Francisco approving enough new homes?

Who’s counting? Federal housing officials say San Francisco has permitted less than 10 units in the first two months of 2024. But city officials say that doesn't tell the whole story.

The San Francisco Standard
Gladwyn d’SouzaFeb 10, 2023

#RHNA needs to be raised to accommodate #ClimateRefugees in locations out of new #fire and #flood zonal #maps where the #resilience should be increased.

Many of the victims have been left without adequate insurance or financial means to rebuild. Those who remained are in large part the well-off and the well-insured, a trend helping remake and re-sort communities across the state by rich and poor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/california-fires-home-prices/?

California fires widen the gap between rich and poor

In California and much of the American West, the extremes of climate change are widening the gap between rich and poor.

The Washington Post
Elizabeth HausingDec 21, 2022
The next episode in the #HuntingtonBeach’s fight to avoid the state’s mandate to #BuildMoreHousing has dropped! The one where the new (anti-density) city council authorizes their elected city attorney to sue the state over the #RHNA and block the #BuildersRemedy! Friends, You cannot make this stuff up! https://twitter.com/scott_wiener/status/1605344728395919361
Senator Scott Wiener on Twitter

“Huntington Beach is once again trying to exempt itself from state housing law. Spoiler alert: It can’t do this, just like the last time it tried to do this & @GavinNewsom told it to settle down. Here’s the city’s proposed violation of state law: https://t.co/bCY7qp0Wzx”

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